Pentonkion

Features

Issuer	Leontini (Sicily)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	476 BC - 466 BC
Value	Pentonkion (5⁄12)
Currency	Litra
Composition	Silver
Weight	0.27 g
Diameter	8 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 581148
References	HGC 2# 700 Oliver D. Hoover; 2012. Handbook of Coins of Sicily (Including Lipara) / Volume 2: Civic, Royal, Siculo-Punic, and Romano-Sicilian Issues : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. , Buceti# 12 Giuseppe Buceti; 2010. Monete, storia e topografia della Sicilia greca. Plectica, Messina, Italy. , McClean# 2334 Sidney W. Grose. Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom (3 volumes). , SNG Lloyd# 1051 Peter Bagwell Purefoy, Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume II - The Lloyd Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (4 volumes). , Winterthur 1# 714 Hansjörg Bloesch; 1987. Griechische Münzen in Winterthur 1. Münzkabinett der Stadt Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland (2 volumes).

Obverse

Head of roaring lion right with protruding tongue; border of dots

Reverse

Five pellets; within shallow incuse circle

Mint

Leontini, Sicily, modern-day Lentini, Italy

Comments

C. Boehringer, Leontinoi, pl. 10, 17 = Winterthur 714; E. Cammarata, “Da Dionisio a Timoleonte. Problemi di numismatica della Sicilia antica”, 1984, pl. I/B, 25

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (476 BC - 466 BC)

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